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most citedThe Lean Data Scientist: Recent Advances towards Overcoming the Data Bottleneck

13 citations · 17 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2025

One Joke to Rule them All? On the (Im)possibility of Generalizing Humor

Mor Turgeman, Chen Shani, Dafna Shahaf

Humor is a broad and complex form of communication that remains challenging for machines. Despite its broadness, most existing research on computational humor traditionally focused…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Towards Concept-Aware Large Language Models

Chen Shani, Jilles Vreeken, Dafna Shahaf

Concepts play a pivotal role in various human cognitive functions, including learning, reasoning and communication. However, there is very little work on endowing machines with the…

cs.CL2023

FAME: Flexible, Scalable Analogy Mappings Engine

Shahar Jacob, Chen Shani, Dafna Shahaf

Analogy is one of the core capacities of human cognition; when faced with new situations, we often transfer prior experience from other domains. Most work on computational analogy…

cs.LG2022★ 13 cited

The Lean Data Scientist: Recent Advances towards Overcoming the Data Bottleneck

Chen Shani, Jonathan Zarecki, Dafna Shahaf

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing the world, affecting almost every field of science and industry. Recent algorithms (in particular, deep networks) are increasingly data-hun…

cs.CL2021

How Did This Get Funded?! Automatically Identifying Quirky Scientific Achievements

Chen Shani, Nadav Borenstein, Dafna Shahaf

Humor is an important social phenomenon, serving complex social and psychological functions. However, despite being studied for millennia humor is computationally not well understo…

cs.HC2021★ 1 cited

"Alexa, what do you do for fun?" Characterizing playful requests with virtual assistants

Chen Shani, Alexander Libov, Sofia Tolmach +3

Virtual assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google Home, and Microsoft's Cortana, are becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and successfully help users in various dai…